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4135 Taste and See Who God Wants You to Be

Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo

Release Date: 07/26/2026

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Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo

When you feel like all you're doing is running away from or toward all the things, it's hard to find joy and peace in life. You can get down and out about your circumstances, and all hope feels lost. But as Paul says in Romans 15:13, "May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit." Have you ever had one of those seasons where it feels like you're just running? Running toward the next thing on your list. Running away from the thing you don't want to face. Running in circles because you're not even sure...

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Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo

There's a moment in every marriage where you have to make a choice. You can stand there replaying every missed pass — every time your spouse came up short, every promise that got fumbled, every "we'll get to it" that never got to anything. Or you can do what the good ones do when the clock is running out. You can look for something to work with. Think about what you do now. Are you one who focuses on what doesn't work? Or are you willing to see what's possible? Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the . #RelationshipBuilders #CreateYourNow...

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Parenting is a never-ending, rhythmic song that plays over and over again. Some of the melodies are soothing to the heart — a sleepy child curled into your shoulder, a shared laugh over something silly at the dinner table, a "thank you, Mom" that comes out of nowhere and undoes you a little. But many more of the notes disrupt the nervous system. The 2 a.m. cries. The slammed doors of the teenage years. The days when you've given everything and it still doesn't feel like enough. However you hear it, you can't run from the most important responsibility in your life. Never miss a beat. Parents,...

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There is a particular kind of tired that comes from walking in circles. You look up and realize you have passed this same tree, this same doubt, this same conversation with yourself, more times than you can count. You are moving; your legs ache to prove it, but the scenery refuses to change. And somewhere in that repetition, you hope that the circle isn't wasted.  Because the real question, the one that keeps you up at night, is "does any of this matter if I don't even know where I am?" Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at the . #Inspiration...

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Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo

Life doesn't always unfold the way we planned. One day the road looks clear, and the next, it curves somewhere we never saw coming. Unexpected turns can leave us feeling disappointed, confused, or uncertain about what is happening in our world and what God is doing in the middle of it. But here is what remains true even when everything else feels shaky: God is never surprised by the path ahead. Just because life takes an unexpected turn, God was not caught off guard, and He is not scrambling to figure out what to do next. "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord in...

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There is a particular kind of tired that has nothing to do with sleep. It's the tired that comes from carrying a dream for longer than you expected to carry it, from praying the same prayer for the hundredth time, from showing up to the same unfinished work day after day and wondering if today is any different from yesterday. If you're in that kind of tired right now, know that you are not stalled. You are in the middle. And the middle is where most of life actually happens. So keep walking when the miles feel long. We tend to picture progress as a straight, visible line — one clear step...

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A journey lasts a lifetime. It requires a chosen mindset, intentional thoughts, and actions that put an exclamation point to movement. Not a comma. Not a question mark. An exclamation point—a declaration that you meant to keep going. As you travel the various paths set before you, let this settle into your spirit: you didn't come this far to come this far. You kept what was valuable in front of you. You pivoted where necessary. You became consistent as time moved on, even when consistency cost you something. Desire to be supported and encouraged by other like-minded women? Join us at...

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There's a moment right before your feet hit the floor. The alarm has gone off, the day is waiting, and for just a second you get to choose what you reach for first. Most of us reach for the phone. We reach for the to-do list already running in our heads. We reach for yesterday's leftover worry and let it become this morning's starting point. But there's another way to open your eyes. Psalm 90:14 says, "Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days." Moses wrote those words — the same Moses who spent forty years watching a...

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Marriage was designed for intimacy. God built it that way on purpose — physical closeness is part of the gift. So why in the world would I tell you to keep your clothes on? Because there's a kind of intimacy that has to come first. And if you don't have it, the physical stuff becomes a bandage on a wound that keeps reopening. If you don't have the heart of your spouse, maybe you should keep your clothes on. Cordial Isn't the Same as Connected Think about how you actually interact with your spouse right now — not how you wish you did, not how you did on your wedding day. Right...

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Create Your Now with Kristianne Wargo

Parents have it rough sometimes. The struggle is real. We want to give our kids everything. The newest shoes. The latest gadget. The experience everyone else is posting about. We work extra shifts, stretch the budget, and say yes to one more thing—all because we want them to have what matters. But here's what we don't say out loud enough: the one thing only you can give them, you already have. It's you. Your presence. The gift that keeps on giving. A lot of times, we convince ourselves that if we just buy this or get that, our kids will know they're loved. And materially, maybe they'll have...

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Somewhere along the way, a lot of us picked up a quiet, exhausting belief: that heaven is a reward we earn. That if we pray enough, serve enough, show up enough, say the right things, avoid the wrong things — we'll have finally done enough to deserve a seat at the table. Here's the truth that changes everything: it was never about what you do. It's about what Jesus already did. Taste and see who God wants you to be.

Read that first part again, because I think you needed it today. You are not the one who gets yourself to heaven. You never were. That job was finished on a cross, by someone who didn't need your help to do it.

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Ephesians 2:8 says it plainly: "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God."

Not from yourselves. Not earned. Not maintained by your good behavior or lost by your bad days. A gift.

So many of us are walking around running an internal audit — did I pray long enough this morning? Did I read enough Scripture this week? Did I mess up too many times to still count? That's not faith. That's fear wearing faith's clothes. And it will wear you out, because you were never built to carry your own salvation. You were built to receive it.

Deep Calls to Deep

Psalm 42:7 says, "Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me."

That's not a gentle image. That's an ocean calling to an ocean. It's God reaching past your surface — past the version of you that shows up put-together, past the résumé of good deeds you've been quietly compiling — and speaking to the deep place underneath it all.

Transformation doesn't start on the outside. It doesn't start with fixing your habits or cleaning up your language or finally getting your act together. It starts when the deep in you responds to the deep in Him. When you stop managing your image and let Him actually reach the parts of you that you don't show anyone.

You can't perform your way into that kind of change. You can only be met there.

Taste and See

Psalm 34:8 invites us with a phrase that's become one of the most quoted lines in Scripture for a reason: "Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him."

Not "read about." Not "hear a sermon about." Taste. Experience it for yourself. God isn't asking for your theoretical belief — He's asking you to actually engage with Him and find out, firsthand, that He's good.

And here's the part that matters for how you live this out with other people: God has something specific for you. Not a copy of someone else's calling, not a formula that worked for your friend, not a five-step plan you found online. Something specific. Made for you.

Which means you don't get to decide someone else's specific isn't ready yet.

The K.I.S.S. ~ Taste and see!

Invite Anyway

It is not your job to judge whether someone needs Christ. It's not your job to decide they're "not there yet," or too far gone, or too messy, or too resistant. Your job is simply to invite them anyway.

You don't know what deep is calling to deep in someone else's life right now. You don't know what's happening underneath the surface they're showing you. So invite them. Let God do what only God can do with the invitation. Your role is the door, not the judge standing in front of it.

Accept God the Way He Shows Up

Here's the harder shift, though, and it might be the one you actually need most: maybe you need to be willing to accept God the way He shows up for you — not the way you think you have to show up for Him.

We spend so much energy trying to perform our way into God's presence, when He's already shown up. In the waterfall. In the ordinary Tuesday. In the answered prayer you almost missed because you were too busy trying to earn it. He doesn't wait for your polished version. He meets the real one.

Stop trying to be presentable enough for God and start letting Him be present with you as you are.

There Is Power Here

There is power in your prayers. Power in your worship. Power in what God will do in you — and then, through you, once you stop white-knuckling your own transformation and let Him actually do it.

Jesus said it Himself: "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me" (John 14:6).

The way. Not a way you build. Not a way you earn. A way already made.

So taste it. See it. Stop auditing yourself and start receiving Him. And then — invite someone else to do the same.

"Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!"

 

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Music by Mandisa - Overcomer

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Song ID: 68209
Song Title: Overcomer
Writer(s): Ben Glover, Chris Stevens, David Garcia
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